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jamiedimon_2yesterday at 2:51 AM2 repliesview on HN

Some of this data is obviously trash: https://radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2025#api-client-...

There is no way that go is beating python for api client language popularity. Are they just measuring the fact that net/http has a default user agent?


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mattacularyesterday at 3:13 AM

They can detect golang pretty reliably by fingerprinting the requests they handle (ie. TLS handshake) unless the app developer has taken some explicit measures to counter it.